July 2013 -- The Advocate's Guide to California's Coordinated Care Initiative helps advocates understand the Coordinated Care Initiative (CCI), a new state program changing the way dual eligible beneficiaries and other seniors and persons with disabilities get their health care in eight California counties.

The guide includes a description of the CCI, information on whom the CCI impacts, how individual beneficiaries are impacted, why it is being implemented and when and where the program is taking place.

The guide, which will be updated as program rules develop and change, includes a pull-out table that an advocate can use to determine who the CCI impacts and how it affects beneficiaries.

The National Senior Citizens Law Center and the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) coauthored the guide.